Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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From the opening moments as Larsen gathers pace the prevailing sense of joyous expectation is plainly palpable. Its cross contamination of influences have created an intriguing mix of haunting, delicate guitars alongside shimmering arpeggios, moody bass and electro drums. Facets, proceeds to move across deeper territory with a graceful flair again combining different atmospheric charges
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Feeling like in in rush to be heard this insistent set of rhythms and hotwired electronic configuration is both exhilarating plus hyper cool in execution. But then I guess it would be by appearing on Roush. The musical collaboration tempts fate into two equally fiery dancefloor arrangements, which also ignite the imagination via unexpected twists
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Modern music for the soul. Eddy Romero delivers on a promise with this selection of hotwired electronics provoking engagement with all the senses. Opening with What A S the air is filled with smouldering rhythms, probing percussion plus the welcome addition of low-slung bass as keys cruise the stereo field. Primarie then serves eleven minutes
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Beginning life as already atmospherically rich pieces located on Lulu Gainsbourg’s stunning album Replay, both numbers receive radical interpretations from Luciano who injects added energy while exciting the flow of electronic information into their rhythms and breath. Most obviously transforming the waves of delicate piano and voice inhabiting his excellent remix of L’enfance, suggesting something
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Listening to Rise allows you time to pause for thought. Like you are heading in a certain direction even if that location may not yet be obvious. Perhaps oblivious. What I like about the music that Jeff Mills currently creates is that it plugs into a future-past, feeling as if sounds congregate and evolve while
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Sometimes caffeine plugs neatly into music like a life enhancement, especially in the cool of an autumn morning. Lifted from the duo’s forthcoming debut album Echo Echo it’s to Open that I turn my attention because it draws you into its world of picture forming, poignant elegance so smoothly. It is a gorgeous, sumptuous journey
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A sense of imminent danger is only to be encouraged as the need arises to shake you out of any unnecessary complacency when it comes to future-thinking music. Basic Moves label-boss Walrus opens Snaretrade003 via Echo Eva which demands your rapid attention generated by conflicting voices overlapping in a series of short, sharp shocks. The
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On occasion it would be altogether easier, a more simple process, to ask you to engage with a piece of music for yourself. The reason I say that is because Mouthful of Dust feels almost too personal to touch, like uncovering a lost moment in time gone forever. This is a remarkable series of pieces